Willow Grove Abbey (52 page)

“Have I told you how utterly love
ly you are?” he whispered to me.

“Have I told you that you’re still the
most devastatingly handsome man I’ve ever known?” I replied. He squeezed my hand, and I felt the familiar tingle go down my spine. In that moment I knew that everything was going to be all right. The worst was behind us. We had weathered such an enormous storm... storms, really... and I knew that the future held many, many years of happiness. Finally we could look ahead to our own home. Finally, there was no more worry about Edwina. I could be independent again, with no more listening to the bickering of my parents. Spence and I would watch Isabella grow to be a young lady and woman, basking in our happiness. I couldn’t imagine that anything on Earth could compare with what we had been through. I had no idea what lay ahead. However, there was no question that I believed with all of my heart that we were meant to be together, and we would face the future with that uppermost in our minds.

Mary Christian Payne
is an accomplished business woman, who has held high ranking, management positions with Fortune 500 companies, in New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, Orlando, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is a recipient of the Mayor’s Pinnacle Award in Tulsa, for directing a highly successful program at The Women’s Resource Center at the University of Tulsa. All of these positions involved significant amounts of writing. She has also acted as a speech writer for high profile political figures, and for executives of major corporations.

She is now a retire
d Career Psychologist. She was the founder and President of Transitions Counseling Center, in partnership with her father, the retired CEO of a four billion dollar retail organization. She has taught seminars throughout Oklahoma. Mary Christian is a world traveler, and has spent extensive time in England, thus creating an excellent foundation for writing novels set in Great Britain. The era of World War II has always held tremendous appeal for her, and she is a committed Anglophile. The daughter of an Army Major during World War II, she grew up hearing countless stories of that tumultuous and romantic time.

She lives with her husband
, Jim, who is a Pharmacist, and their two beloved Maltese Terriers in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She is also the mother of two, adult children, and three-grandchildren.

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